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Maungatapu murderers hanged in Nelson

1866 Maungatapu murderers hanged in Nelson

Burgess, Kelly and Levy were hanged. Joseph Sullivan, the fourth member of the 'Burgess gang', received a life sentence because he had turned Queen's evidence and helped convict his co-accused. more...

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The executions - Maungatapu murders

External links

  • Nelson Evening Mail, October 5, 1866 (Papers past)
  • Richard Burgess biography (DNZB)
  • Maungatapu Mountain Killings (1966 encyclopaedia)
  • Philip Levy (1966 encyclopaedia)
  • Thomas Kelly (1966 encyclopaedia)
  • Joseph Sullivan (1966 encyclopaedia)
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